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Athol Fugard
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“For all agonies of the joints: Lum¬ bago, rheumatism, tennis elbows, housemaid’s knees;also ideal for bunions, corns, callouses”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too many cooks spoil the broth”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“No smell doth stink as sweet as labour, Tis joyous times when man and man Do work and sweat in common toil.When all the world’s my neighbor.”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ethel Lange, 10 de Villiers Street, Oudtshoom. I am eighteen years old and well-developed and would like to correspond with a gent of sober habits and a good outlook on life. My interests are nature, rock-and-roll, swimming and a happy future. My motto is, ‘rolling stones gather no moss.’ Please note: I promise to reply faithfully”
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“Twenty-two and no strings attached. Would like letters from men of the same age or older. My \interests are beauty contests and going out. A snap with the first letter, please.”
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“Betty Jones. Roodepoort. Young and pleasing personality. I’d like to correspond with gentlemen friends of maturity. No teenagers need reply. My hobby at the moment is histori¬ cal films, but I’m prepared to go back to last year’s, which was autograph hunting. I would appreciate a photo¬ graph”
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“I notice your brother got boots. All policemen got boots. Good luck to him, any¬ way, and Lucy too. Write soon. Zachariah Pietersen”
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“I like the thought of this little white girl”
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“I took a good look at my life. What did I see? A bloody circus monkey! Selling most of his time on earth to another man. Out of every twenty-four hours I could only properly call mine the six when I was sleeping. What the hell is the use of that?”
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“This is a strong-room of dreams. The dreamers? My people. The simple people, who you never find mentioned in the history books, who never get statutes erected to them, or monuments commemorating their great deeds. People who would be forgotten, and their dreams with them, if it wasn’t for Styles. That’s what I do, friends. Put down, in my way, on paper the dreams and hopes of my people so that even their children’s children will remember a man.”
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“Burn that book? Stop kidding yourself, Sizwe! Anyway, suppose you do. You must immediately go apply for a new one. Right? And until that new one comes, be careful the police don’t stop you and ask for your book. Into the Courtroom, brother. Charge: Failing to produce Reference Book on demand. Five rand or five days.”
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“You must understand this. We own nothing except ourselves. This world and its laws, allows us nothing except ourselves.”
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“Sizwe Bansi, in a manner of speaking, is dead!”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want to die.”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What's wrong with me? I'm a man. I've got eyes to see. I've got ears to listen when people talk. I've got a good head to think things. What's wrong with me?”
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“I don't want to lose my name, Buntu.”
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“Are you really worried about your children, friend, or are you just worried about yourself and your bloody name? Wake up, man! Use that bloody book and with your pay on Friday you'll have a real chance to do something for them.”
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“Hold it, Robert. Hold it just like that. Just one more. Now smile Robert... Smile... Smile...”
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“Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.”
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“Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.”
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“It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.”
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“Be careful, Hally." "Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.”
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“Sam: So then what is art? Hally: You want a definition? Sam: Ja. Hally: [He realizes he has got to be careful. He gives the matter a lot of thought before answering.] Philosophers have been trying to do that for centuries. What is Art? What is Life? But basically I suppose it's... the giving of meaning to matter. Sam: Nothing to do with beautiful? Hally: It goes beyond that. It's the giving of form to the formless.”
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“Bullshit, as usual.”
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“Flicker of morbid interest.”
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“But things will change, you wait and see.”
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“I'm all right on oppression.”
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“Tolstoy may have educated his peasants, but I've educated you.”
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“Sam, Willie ... is he in there with you boys?”
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“In fact, I was shit-scared that we were going to make fools of ourselves.”
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“Little white boy ... and a black man old enough to be his father flying a kite.”
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“You want to get into the story as well, do you?”
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“It was you who start me ballroom dancing.”
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“Not just me. What I'm saying to you is that everybody's got it.”
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“He certainly was trying to teach people to get the steps right.”
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“All you've got to do is stand up and walk away from it.”
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“It doesn't have to be that way. There something called progress, you know. We don't exactly burn people at the stake anymore.”
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“We need a definition of greatness, and I suppose that would be somebody who... somebody who benefited all mankind.”
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“It's the likes of you that kept the Inquisition in business. It's called bigotry.”
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“I think I spent more time in there with you chaps than anywhere else in that dump. And do you blame me? Nothing but bloody misery wherever you went.”
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“To be one of those finalists on that floor is like... like being in a dream world in which accidents don't happen.”
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“He's a white man and that's good enough for you.”
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“I mean, how do I wash off yours and your father's filth?...I've also failed. A long time ago I promised myself I would do something, but you've just shown me...Master Harold...that I've failed.”
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“Fly another kite, I suppose. It worked once, and this time I need it as much as you do.”
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“Tonight I find Hilda and say sorry. And make promise I won't beat her no more. You hear me, Boet Sam?”
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“Sam: But don’t let me see it. The secret is to make it look easy. Ballroom must look happy, Willie, not like hard work. It must Ja!It must look like romance.”
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“Hally: I oscillate between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam.”
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“Anybody who lets facts interfere with his imagination is a person who will never enjoy anything else again.”
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“There's nothing wrong with the world. It just goes around and around, and you gotta get on with your life.”
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